Clothes-drier



0. F. BUEH'LER.

CLOTHES DRIER.

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CHARLES FREDERICK BUEHLER, OF SPENCERVILLE, OH10.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,864, dated December 8, 1885.

Serial No. 153,890. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F; BUEHLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Spencerville, in the county of Allen and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Driers, of which the followingis a specificatiomreference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to clothes-driers, and more particularly to that class in which a frame is adapted to revolve upon a suitable supportingrod; and it has for its object to provide an improved bearing for the support of the said frame upon the rod, and to provide said rod with an integral collar, upon which the frame is adapted to bear or rest.

A further object of the invention is to provide improved means for bracing and connecting the inner ends of the bars or strips composing the frame.

With these ends in view the invention consists in the improved construction and combi nations of parts hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a clothesdrier constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same, and Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views of the bracingplates connecting the inner ends of the strips or bars composing the frame.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures, A represents the frame,which consists of a series of four strips, a, having theirinner ends connected and rest ing between metal plates B B. The upperof these plates,B,is composed of a main or central portion, 1), having a hole or opening, and provided with the outwardly-extending arms 0, having the downturned flanges d, which are adapted to bear against the sides of the bars or strips a, the said top plate, B, approximating a Roman cross in form. The lower plate, B, is of the same form as the plate B, and consists of a central portion, 6, having a hole or opening, f, and a series of opposite outwardly extending arms 9'. The said arms 9 are providedwith upwardly-extending side flanges, h, which at their inner ends bear against the downwardly-extending flanges of the upper plate,B, thus entirely inclosing the inner ends of the arms a, and bracing the same against movement or detachment. The inner ends of the arms a only extend inwardly as far as a point on a vertical line with the points of junction of the arms 0 and g, with body portions Z1 and e of the plates B B, thus leaving sufficient space for the passage of the end of a supporting-rod,D. The plates B B are clamped firmly on the inner ends of the radial arms of the reel by bolts Z, which pass through said plates and through the inner ends of the arms, as shown at Fig. 2. This supporting-rod D is formed with a collar, E, which supports the frame, the plate B bearing or resting on said collar. The upper end of this rod is conical, and is adapted to fita conical seat in a thimble, F, having an annular flange at its lower end, which annular flange is provided with aseries of openings, t, in which are secured the ends of wires Gr, their other ends being secured to the outer ends of the bars or strips a, thus affording a double support for the frameA and holding the same in position.

H represents the clothes line or wire-in the present instance WlI'6-Wlll0ll is secured at one end to one of the bars or strips a near the inner end thereof, and from there to the next strip, and so on around the frame, the line being secured upon the bars or strips a, prefen.

ably by staples, as shown. 7

The abovedescribed clothes-drier is simple in its construction, may be manufactured and supplied at a slight cost, is strong and durable, and provides convenient and effective means for the purposes intended.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, in a clothes-drier, of the rod,the thimble thereon, the rotating reel on the rod, and brace-rods connecting the reel with the thimble, the reel consisting of the radial arms a, the plates B and B, having the central openings for the rod, and the side flanges,d and h, for embracing the sides of the radial arms, the said flanges meeting at the inner ends of the arms, the plates being clamped upon the arms and secured together by bolts Z, passing through said plates and through the inner ends of the arms, substantially as described.

2. The herein-described clothesdrier, con- ICO sisting of the reel having the upper and lower connecting the flange with the radial arms, as

plates, B B, provided with the central openset forth.

ings, the radial arms having their inner ends In testimony that I claim the foregoing as terminating on each side of the openings, and my own I have hereto affixed my signature in 5 secured by vertical boltsZ between the plates, presence of two witnesses.

the supporting-rod D, having an integral collar, E, and providedwith a conical upper end, CHARLES FREDERICK BULHLER' a conically-recessed thimble receiving the up- Witnesses:

per end of the rod, an annular flange formed J. W. ARNOLD, 10 around the base of the thimble, and wires G, J. N. BAILEY. 

